424: Nutritional Psychiatrist Reveals Top Foods to Beat Depression and Anxiety | Dr. Drew Ramsey
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drdrewramsey424
Dr. Drew Ramsey (IG: @drewramseymd) is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. His work focuses on clinical excellence, nutritional interventions and creative media.
Drew is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and he has an active telemedicine clinical practice based in New York City.
Today we’re discussing Drew's latest book, Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up on a farm taught Drew the importance of nourishing food
- Day to day life living off the land
- Finding space for conventional and non-conventional medicine
- Integrating nourishment as a preventative measure for mental health
- How Drew struggled on a vegetarian diet
- Focusing on foods to help decrease brain shrinkage
- What to expect when you see a nutritional psychiatrist
- Drew’s surprising favourite food
- The emotional complexity of having farm animals
- The goals of Drew's family farm
- Growing your own food teaches you to value it
- The best foods to eat for anxiety & depression
- How the gut microbiome specifically impacts brain health
- The vagus nerve is a neurological highway between the gut and the brain
- Is serotonin overhyped?
- Why BDNF is important for your mental health
- The 6 nutrients that influence BDNF
- Focusing on foods first and the role of supplements
- The soil crisis
- What Drew eats on a typical day
- Find foods the whole family enjoys eating
- Tips for parents on incorporating brain boosting foods into their kids daily routine
- Forming a food philosophy with your partner
- Bring mindfulness and awareness to food when treating depression
- Factors that cause chronic inflammation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast, |
| 0:02.2 | it's true that there's a kind of massive crisis |
| 0:05.8 | in soil and soil fertility around the globe |
| 0:08.4 | that's slowly unraveling or slowly coming to late. |
| 0:11.9 | You know, for the individual eater |
| 0:13.5 | as a clinician, what I really try and focus on |
| 0:15.3 | is how can people get their hands in the soil more? |
| 0:17.8 | How can people get more plants in their diet? |
| 0:20.0 | And sometimes for people that's like organic |
| 0:22.2 | deliciousness from the farmer's market, |
| 0:24.0 | sometimes that's like a conventional bag of celery |
| 0:26.4 | from a big box store. |
| 0:28.0 | And I think that it's one of those kind of, |
| 0:30.8 | it was like the levels of things. |
| 0:32.5 | Like, you know, I start with like, |
| 0:33.9 | can you fill the plates with a lot of plants |
| 0:35.7 | and seafood, lots of nuts and beans, |
| 0:37.6 | so my little rhyme, seafood greens, nuts and beans |
| 0:40.3 | and a little dark chocolate? |
| 0:41.9 | And then how can you start to optimize those things |
| 0:44.8 | most in terms of your consumption, your taste, |
| 0:47.4 | your price point, your sourcing? |
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